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James Weldon Johnson

"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."

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"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."

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Akiroq Brost

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

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"God is only a great imaginative experience."

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Akiroq Brost

"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."

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James Weldon Johnson
"You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun."

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James Weldon Johnson
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."

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James Weldon Johnson
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."

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James Weldon Johnson
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

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James Weldon Johnson
"She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves."

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James Weldon Johnson
"As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat."

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James Weldon Johnson
"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her."

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James Weldon Johnson
"I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them."

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James Weldon Johnson
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."

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"The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice."

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